From a block of pinewood, Guatemalan legends are revealed. Fourth-generation woodcarver Arturo Aj Canil from Chichicastenango carves wood masks of
Also from Novica: How is a hand blown glass pitcher
Rotating Saddle (and the science behind it) from the Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations team: A playground ball finds stability in a saddle
saddle consists of many layers of fiberglass and was hand-made
This small creature is called a puggle. It’s a baby echidna, is just 40 days old and lives at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital: Annabelle a Taronga Vet
why Annabelle has to feed Beau from the palm of her hand
In 2011, Singapore-based stamp artist Jiahui Zheng of ParadeMade carved her first stamp out of an eraser with a penknife. And after a decade of practice,
making a book: Setting type, printing, and binding by hand
While googling about mechanical inventions like Mark Galt’s walking mechanical humans, I happened upon this lovely 1890 piece of restored gears and
drawing machine automaton by Pierre Jaquet-Droz • Hand
Filmed against the sunset skies of Marseille, France, A Bird Ballet is a moment with a flock of (what we assume are) quickly-shifting starlings, caught by
Music: Hand-Made by Alt-J.
In the end, I avoided 79 pieces of single-use plastic and only used two on this weeklong trip. This experience reminded me that you don’t have to be
Next: Paper Towel vs Hand Dryers, turning banana peels
Cross contour line drawing is an art technique that gives flat images the illusion of volume. Like topographic lines on an elevation map or the distinct
drawing and line videos next: • How To Draw Your Hand
When paleontologists uncover a dinosaur they usually only find part of the animal, but when we walk through a museum we see exhibits that paint a full
In the early 1900’s artists used to hand carve the
Bee populations are on the decline, and the city of Detroit, Michigan has 90,000 vacant housing lots, a result of the local economy. Detroit Beekeepers
honey • Cutting honeycombs and bottling honey by hand
